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Dear Ma and Pa,
I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine
Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing. Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water.

Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc. but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you til noon when you get fed again.

It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much. We go on "route
marches", which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home.

Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice but awful flat The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot.

The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride
around and frown. They don't bother you none. This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

You're a creative type of guy, maybe you could make us a board game version of this. We could even enlist the help of Wehavehadit for the artwork. And let this serve as my official waiver to any royalties. Just let me know when it hits the stores.:-)

OldGuard: forgotten but not gone. Then again, how many other ex-staffers were immediately kicked off the site when they left? Not Ryan, not Stephanie, not the IT gal, and not even the guy who ended up with a mug shot.

Any and all suggestions for game piece designs are welcome. Have a few in mind; for yourself it would be the classic Mustang Cobra (a natural) VM would have the mini mound resembling Mt. Vesuvius, the Lipton Tea Bag for OG, ST's would be a pirate ship or Captain Ahab and Smokey the Bear for sheriff Tanner........now if only Heron comes through with the actual board game........

Actually Ford took the name from Shelby after Iacocca was involved. Actually Iacocca helped Shelby out quite a bit (financially) when the Cobra got started. At that time Ford was trying to find something to beat the Corvette and Shelby and Iacocca came up with the Cobra idea along with the help from AC.

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